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The 6th World Conference on Research Integrity will take place in Hong Kong, June 2-5, 2019. Co-organized by Melbourne, Australia, it will explore the application of these new research findings to develop new and better solutions to address New Challenges for Research Integrity.

Waste occurs during 5 stages of research production: question selection, study design, research conduct, publication, and reporting. Much of this waste appears to be avoidable or remediable, but there are few proposed solutions.
To stimulate and promote research in this area,, Cochrane is now calling for nominations for the 2018 prize.
Nominations should be submitted by 15 May 2018.

This one day symposium will bring together key stakeholders in science, including experts from schools of public health and medicine, and will be an ideal platform for discussing ways to promote reproducibility and transparency.
Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut on April 16th, 2018

Registered reports present a substantial departure from traditional publishing models with the goal of enhancing the transparency and credibility of the scientific literature. We map the evolving universe of registered reports to assess their growth, implementation and shortcomings at journals across scientific disciplines.

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Meta-Research is coming of age. This is the energizing insight that I brought home from Washington, DC, where I had joined the recent Sackler Colloquium held at the National Academy of Sciences. Organized by David B. Allison, Richard Shiffrin and Victoria Stodden, and generously supported by the Laura and John Arnold foundation and others, the colloquium brought together experts from all over the academic and geographic world, to discuss “Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies”.

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The 6th World Conference on Research Integrity will take place in Hong Kong, June 2-5, 2019. Co-organized by Melbourne, Australia, it will explore the application of these new research findings to develop new and better solutions to address New Challenges for Research Integrity.